Lactates and gluconates for nutrition

Our lactates and gluconates provide versatility, neutral taste, high solubility, and good bioavailability.

Easy to process

Corbion's portfolio of natural, biobased minerals and electrolytes delivers important nutrients across a wide range of nutraceutical supplements, in addition to clinical and medical nutrition applications. Our lactates and gluconates provide versatility, neutral taste, high solubility, and good bioavailability. These solutions are also easy to process, thanks to our directly compressible product grades, which are non-hygroscopic, free-flowing powders.

Versatile in application

Our minerals deliver high-quality nutrition through parenteral use and in a wide range of nutraceutical applications. Their suitability for multiple formats provides you flexibility in developing effective end products with specific mineral content for a broad spectrum of consumers and lifestyles. Potential applications include:

• Tablets

• Effervescent tablets

• Liquid supplements and syrups

• Lozenges

• Powder supplements

High-performance product portfolio

Whether you are creating products enriched with sodium lactate or calcium gluconate, you can count on Corbion for quality mineral content in all your applications:

GLUCONAL®: Effective gluconate minerals

GLUCONAL® is Corbion's family of high-performance, gluconate minerals. Offering a neutral taste, outstanding solubility, and good bioavailability, these products provide an effective way to deliver minerals and electrolytes in both liquid and solid applications. They are as well-suited for oral use for human nutrition as they are for injectables and/or veterinary applications.

The GLUCONAL range enables you to fortify your products using a wide range of minerals, including:

• GLUCONAL® CAM (USP, EP), Calcium gluconate monohydrate

• GLUCONAL® CADS (USP), Calcium D-saccharate

• GLUCONAL® FE (USP), Ferrous gluconate

• GLUCONAL® MG (USP), Magnesium gluconate

• GLUCONAL® K (USP), Potassium gluconate

• GLUCONAL® ZN (USP, EP), Zinc gluconate

PURAMEX®: Natural, healthy lactate minerals

Corbion's PURAMEX® mineral salts provide an easy, natural way for consumers to improve their nutritional intake. Derived from natural L-lactic acids and fermented from carbohydrates, these neutral-tasting products offer high solubility and good bioavailability. PURAMEX® is a highly versatile solution, delivering minerals and electrolytes in both liquid and solid applications, from powder blends to parenterals.

We offer zinc-based versions of this product:

• PURAMEX® ZN, zinc lactate

PURACAL®: A rich source of calcium

A highly soluble calcium source, PURACAL® is a derivative of natural L-lactic acids that is well-suited to pharmaceutical applications. We offer a range of options to best match your requirements:

• PURACAL® PP/USP (USP, EP), Calcium lactate

• PURACAL® DC (USP, EP), Calcium lactate for direct compressible use

• PURACAL® Xpress, Calcium lactate gluconate

Calcium lactate: Quality, guaranteed 

As a supplier of calcium lactate, Corbion is uniquely positioned. We are currently the only calcium lactate supplier with a Certificate of Suitability (CEP), granted by the European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines in Strasbourg. In addition, our calcium lactate can be registered as an Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient, as well as an excipient, which gives you even more versatility in developing your applications.

And as a supplier of high-quality minerals, including sodium lactate and calcium gluconate, we are ready to help you create the high-performance consumer products you envision.

Contact us to find out more about how Corbion can support you with the right minerals for your nutraceutical applications.